Cartridge-belt.



W. G. FISHER.

CARTRIDGE BELT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 20, 1909.

Patented Sept..20, 1910.

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WILLIAM C. FISHER, F MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT.

CARTRIDGE-BELT.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 20, 1910.

Application filed July 29, 1909. Serial No. 510,321.

' and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cartridge-Belts; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will invention being to enable others skilled in the art to which it ap ertains to make and use the same.

'Ihis invention relates to military equ1p ment and .more particularly to improvements incartridge belts, one object of the rovide a narrow cartridge belt having integral pockets which shall be deeper than the width of the belt.

A further object is to reduce the wei ht and improve the appearance of a cartridge belt, by making the body portion thereof narrow and weaving pockets thereon which shall project below the belt and have suflicient depth to accommodate clips of cartridges now in use.

With these objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts as hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of a portion of a cartridge-belt showing an embodiment of my invention; Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view showing the development of the invention during the process of manufacture of the same, and Figs. 3 and 4 are enlarged vertical transverse sections, illustrating the manner of weaving the pockets.

Heretofore, in the manufacture of multiply woven fabric cartridge belts, the pockets have been formed integral with the body of the belt by separating the plies at intervals and providing one separated ply with sufficient fullness to properly form the pocket and permit. the body of the belt back of the pockets to lie flat against the wearer. With prior constructions, it has been necessar to make the body of the belt equal in wi th to the depth of a pocket which will accommodate a clip of cartridges. This necessitated a very wide belt which has been found objectionable, unduly heavy and uncomfortable to the wearer.

To overcome objections incident to cartridge belts as heretofore constructed and still provide a narrow belt, having integral pockets of sufficient depth to accommodate clips of cartridges such as now in use, I propose to weave on the belt, cartridge pockets which shall have portions depending below the lower edge of the belt. In the manufacture of such a cartridge belt, I proceed as follows :After a given length of fabric has been woven in the usual manner to form an end section of the belt, I proceed to weave a pocket and employ four plies of fabric instead of two in the formation of the pocket. When the weaving of the pocket portion be ins, I first weave a few picks of the weft t read into the two outside plies of the belt and then a few picks into the two center plies, interweaving these two center plies so as to form one solid fabric as shown in Fig. 4:. In this manner the closed side of the pocket is formed. After putting in four, six or eight picks of weft thread, I then proceed to weave the pocket with the two center plies separated as shown in Fig. 3, and after weaving a sufficient amount to form a pocket of roper size, I then close the other side of tiie portion of the pocket which is subsequently made to depend below the belt, by weaving in the same manner as above described. I then proceed to weave a few picks of weft thread into the two outside plies of the belt to close the portion of the pocket which lies directly in front of the body of the belt. All four plies may be incorporated into the body of the belt, so that those portions of the belt where pockets are not located, may be four-ply woven fabric, or two lies may be dropped and afterward cut-0 thus forming the body of the belt where no pockets are located, of two plies. After the weaving has been completed, I then cut down the two solidly-woven side portions of the inside plies, within the pocket, or, if I have not woven the inside plies into the body of the belt, I cut the threads where they drop out of use and trim the same. After the inside plies (united at their side edges and one end) have been separated from the sides of the portion of the pocket which lies in front of the belt, I

' integral woven fabric cartridge pockets which have a depth appreciably greater than the width of the belt and sufficient in all proportions to inclose a clip of cartridges such as now in use.

Having fully described my invention what .I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A woven fabric cartridge belt comprising a narrow body portion and integral pockets on the face of the narrow body portion and depending below the same.

2. A woven fabric cartridge belt provided with integral woven pockets depending below the lower edge of the body of the belt.

3.'A Woven fabric belt provided with an edge of the body of the belt.

integral pocket, said pocket having a depth appreciably greater than the width of the belt.

4. A woven fabric belt provided with an integral pocket having a dimension from the.

open top to the closed bottom thereof, which is greater than the width of the belt on which said pocket: is woven.

5. A woven fabric cartridge belt comprising a plurality of plies and having integral pockets comprising four separated plies, two of said separated plies disposed inline with the other two plies and constituting a portion of the pocket depending below the lower In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' WILLIAM C. FISHER.

Witnesses:

V J. LEONARD DoLLEAU,

V J. D. BROWN. 

